The Lebanese Trade Union Coordination Committee (TUCC) is still continuing its open strike for the seventh day, Public sector employees, public schools teachers, and private school teachers have been on strike since last Tuesday 19/2/2013. Sit-ins and protests are being held on a daily basis infront of the offices of the different ministries, strike committees have been organized in different workplaces to support and sustain the strike. The main demand of the strikers is to approve the new wages scale, the state has responded by attacking the strikers of attempting to bankrupt the state. The Economic Bodies League (the trade union for the bosses and capitalists) has responded by saying: “We are give orders, and we do not take them”, which stems from their rejection of the proposal to fund the new wages scale should be funded by raising the taxes on…